Jack Co., TX - Obituaries - Judge Israel Stoddard *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** The Jacksboro Gazette Jacksboro, Jack County, Texas Thursday, February 8, 1917 Jacksboro has again been called upon to note with sorrow the passing of one of its few remaining old-time citizens in the death of Judge I.[Israel] Stoddard who passed away at his home in Jacksboro Tuesday[6 February 1917]. He had been ill with la grippe for several weeks. Funeral held at his home with interment in Oakwood cemetery. Judge Stoddard had long been a resident of Jack County, having come here when old Fort Richardson was an army post. He had seen and realized the life of an early pioneer, and had seen the development of the country from a sparsely settled region invaded by the Indians to its present condition with its schools and churches and all other evidences of a developed country. In all of these improvements he was deeply interested and gave freely of his time and money for their support. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and was at all times one of its most faithful attendants, having been a member from the time of its organization in Jacksboro back in the 1870s. Judge Stoddard was well known all over Jack County, and especially will he be missed by the people who had known him best those who were his neighbors and friends whom he lived at his old country home, ÒMoss Side,Ó in the Rockland Chapel community. He leaves his wife and large family of children and grandchildren, all of whom have sympathy.